Wuzhou

See also: Wúzhōu and Wùzhōu

English

Alternative forms

• Wuchow (Postal Romanization)
• Wu-chou, Wuchou (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 梧州 (Wúzhōu).

Pronunciation

• enPR: wo͞oʹjōʹ

Proper noun

Wuzhou

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangxi, China.
   • 2022 March 21, “Chinese Boeing jet crashes in mountains with 132 on board, no sign of survivors”, in Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 March 2022‎^[2]:

     The aircraft, with 123 passengers and nine crew on board, lost contact over the city of Wuzhou, China's Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) and the airline said.[...]Online weather data showed partly cloudy conditions with good visibility in Wuzhou at the time of the crash.

Translations

prefecture-level city in Guangxi

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 梧州 (ng⁴ zau¹)

  Mandarin: 梧州 (zh) (Wúzhōu)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 3
• Wuzhou, Wuchow, Wu-chou, Wuchou at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.